St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-13

1880; II. p. Rugg q Co, S72; Mathew
Craig, So; Erie City Foundry, $3.50;
Griggs q Foster, ST.; Hudner & Reg
elsberger, SS.18; j. .Kahlert, $15.45; +.
Knauft, $685.. 03; @. Latham, Sc; Lehigh
Coal and Iron company, $3.50; Miles&
Hale, S1:25; Minea q Co, 1915; Scrib-
ner-Libby company, $36.49.
Committee on Claims.
REPORT OF BOARD OF CONTROL.
Report for month of May, 1887, show
! ing total expenditures for hospital,
Ialnlshouse and outside aid, SO, 1871.
Committee on Public Accounts.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
OF committee of Ways and Means
+ Bank Bonds.
Committee submits approved by it
bOnH of First National Bank of St.
Paul in the sum of $50, 600, with Daniel
Q. Shepherd, James j. Hill, G. w.
Griggs, Henry p. Upham and Charles
ID. Giltillan as sureties; the Second Ma
/ tiOnal Bank of st. Paul, in the sum of
$500 600, with G. w. Griggs, Peter Ber-
key, A. T. COney, F. r. Smith. David
Day, George II. Ramsey and William
! b. Dean as sureties; the Bank of Min
nesota in the sum of 100000, with
Mark Costello, Ansel Oppenheim,
John Kerwin, w. Dawson, Charles II.
Miller, Robert A. Smith, Edward Rice
Jr., and p. Il. Kavanagh as sureties;
the Merchants National Bank of st.
Paul in the sum of 100000, with Will
lam r. Merriam, John l.. Mer-
HI. Wilder and Frank A. Sey-
mour as sureties; the National German
American Bank of st. Paul in the sum
of $4,000 with Gustav Willius, John
B. Sanborn, William Lindeke, Joseph
Leckey, and Peter r. l.. Hardenbergh
as sureties; the Savings Bank of st.
Paul in the sum of 100000 with Charles
T.. Drake, John S. Prince, Hascal r.
Brill, John A. Stees and Emanuel Good
as sureties; The Peoples Bank of st.
Paul, in the sum of 100000, with j. p.
Schumacher, A. G. Foster and William
C0nstans as suretieS; the st. Paul Ma
tional bank in the sum of 100000, with
Peter Berkey, L. w. Anderson, Lucien
Warner, Philip Reilly, George Mitseh,
S. S. Eaton, &. w. Hackett, John T.
Averill, G. w. Griggs and j. ID. Hum
phrey as sureties; the German!a bank
in the sum of 100000, with Daniel d.
Merrill, Alex Ramsey, Adam Decker,
Charles Friend and Lewis Baker as
suretieS; the West Side bank in the sum
of 100000, with Daniel ID. Merrill,
Joseph Minea, Gilbert M. Lawton,
as SuretieS; the Commercial National
Bank of st. Paul in the sum of S4OO, 600,
with Charles II. Lienau, Maurice Auer-
bach, William Hamm, Paul Martin and
Henry A. Castle as SuretieS; the said
bonds being given as security for city
funds deposited or to be deposited in
said banks.
Bonds approved by the following
vote:
Yeas-Ald. Conley, Dowlan, U'Con-
nor, Pestch, Cullen, Ryan, Weber,
Kenny, Kahn, Hamm, Bryant, Minea,
Long, Nj. President-14.
Also,
Official Bond
Committee return approved by it
bond of f. l.. Lawrence as bailiff of
Municipal Court.
Bond approved by the following vote:
YeaS-Ald. Conley, DOwian, O'Con-
uer, Petsch, Cullen, Ryan, Weber,
Kenny, Kahn, IIamm, Bryant, Minea,
Long, Mr.. President-14.
Also,
Board of Park Commissioners Commu-
nicatiGn-
3 The Committee on Ways and Means,
ito whom the request of the Park Com
mission that s255, 600 of city bonds be
issued forthwith for park purposes, and
the opinion of II. K. Bigelow, Esq,
. that the Council had no discretion in
THE matter of issuing these bonds, were
referred, respectfully report as follows:
Eirst-YOur committee are heartily
in favor of affording every proper
: facility to the Park Commission in
carrying out the work that devolves
; upon them under the law, and they
will, and they believe your honorable
body will, be found ready at all times
ff,< fr,. o-I fba -
! ing and improving proper parks and
establishing and maintaining a suitable
system of parks for the city, and will
cordially cooperate with the Park Com
EMISSION at all times to accomplish this
r work
Second-Your committee appreciate
and respect the high character of the
gentlemen who now constitute the
Board of Park Commissioners and have
perfect confidence that in all they have
done and all they will do as officials or
citizens they have been and will be
actuated by the highest and most
worthy motives.
Third-Your committee were, how
ever, of the opinion, when they first
considered the law under which the
Board of Park Commissioners is acting,
that the power to determine for what
parks and other purposes, and in what
amounts and to what amount in the
aggregate these park bonds should be
issued rested in your honorable body
in the body chosen by ballot to
represent the citizens of this municipal
ity in matters of this nature-and
tain from the Park Commission a state
nent of the purchases and improve
ments to which they propose to apply
the moneys derived from the bonds they
asked you to issue.
Your committee were led to this view
by various considerations, and among
others the following:
FirSt-If the law undertook to put it
in the power of the Park Commission to
compel the Common Council to issue,
and the city to pay such amounts of
Park Commission chose to demand the
law was clearly void. (See the opinion
of Judge Cooley and the decisions of
the supreme courts of Illinois and Mich
igan, cited by Messrs. Otis and Cornish).
Second-The law provides that the
Commission shall first devise a system
of parks, which at least indicates
strongly that the system so to be first
devised is to be known to the city's rep
resentative body before it is required to
impose tax of 1925, 1000 Oh its citizens.
IHlIu--I Hc law piONiutS llldC the ClJy
Council "may issue bonds not exceed
ing SIDE, 1000 in amount" which would
seem to mean that the Council has the
power to determine what amounts of
these bonds they will issue, provided
they do not issue more than S225, 600.
Fourth-lt has been the general prac-
tice of other Commissions, conducting
different departments of the city govern
ment, to first report to the City Council
intended purchases and ~expen-
ditures, to obtain from the
Council authority to make them and
then and not before to proceed: this
is the practice of the Board of Fire Com
miSSiOnerS and the Court House Com